09a. Land deed, Jacob Arnold and Moses Tuttle, April 14, 1786

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…four pound four shillings and Proclamation money aforesaid for his damages which he had sustained as well by occasion of the detaining that debt as for his courts and charges by him about his first in that behalf expended and Whereas a certain writ of the State of Fracias, I fined out of the court aforesaid upon the judgment aforesaid to me directed then being high Sheriff of the said County whereby I was commanded that of the goods and Chattels, Hereditaments, real Estate lands and Tenements of the said Jonah Austin in my Bailiwic I should cometh to be made the aforesaid sums of money, and that I should have the same before the judges aforesaid on the fourth Tuesday in September then next following to render unto the said Joseph Lewis as by the said Writ of F Facias duly Inspected and recorded pursuant to an Act of the Assembly of New Jersey in that case made and provided reference being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear, and Whereas by virtue of said Writ I did take and seize on all that Tract of land and premises situate containing eighty Acres while Tract of land and premises were by advertised pursuant to the directions of the Act of the Assembly aforesaid to be sold on the twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty four at public venue to be held on the premises on which day and place the same tract of land and premises were by me accordingly exposed to sale at Public vendue and out cry and thereupon Moses Tuttle of the County of Morris aforesaid did then and there bid for the same the sum of five shillings Proclamation money aforesaid and no person biding more the said land and premises was by me in due manner openly cryed off and (next seven lines missing ) by these presents do Grant, bargain, sell, Assign, convey and confirm unto him the said Moses Tuttle his heirs and Assigns forever all and singular the above bounded and discribed tract of land and Premises with the appurtenances and also all the Estate, right, Tithe, Interest property claim and demand of the said Jonah Austin of in and to the same + every part thereof, To have and to hold the said Granted and bargained Premises with all the profits priviledges, commodities, Hereditaments and appurtenances unto the said Moses Tuttle his heirs and Assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of the said Moses Tuttle his heirs and Assigns forever. And I the said Jacob Arnold for myself my heirs executors and administrators do hereby covenant and Grant to and with the said Moses Tuttle his heirs and Assigns that I the said Jacob Arnold have not done suffered caused or procured to be done any act matter or thing whereby the above bargained premises or any past thereof may be changed or Incumbered in Tithe Estate or otherwise. In Wittness whereof I the said Jacob Arnold have hereunto let my hand seal the fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred an eighty six Sealed and delivered in the presence of }